Case Studies

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Contractor:

The house is based around using renewable materials including Tradical^® Hemcrete^® to deliver a low cost, affordable house that meets Level 4 of the Code for Sustainable Homes through materials alone, with a build cost of £75,000, excluding groundworks. Whilst offering significantly minimised embodied CO2, the design also enables the easy enhancement to meet Levels 5 and 6.

Once completed the house’s performance will be monitored over a three year period in order to establish evidence of the performance characteristics and the sustainability profile of renewable building materials. It is anticipated the development will demonstrate that low costs and renewable building methods are compatible and together they provide a viable method of delivering sustainable, affordable homes.

Principal

Contractor:

When The Wine Society where looking to increase their temperature controlled wine storage facilities in Stevenage by more than 50,000 cubic metres to house more than three and a half million bottles of wine for their members, they chose to use Tradical® Hemcrete® thermal walling.  In use since mid 2008 without any heating or cooling equipment in operation, the monitoring of the internal environment of the warehouse has shown remarkable temperature stability despite daily external temperature variation and extended periods of sub-zero temperatures.